Apple Introduces New Mac Pro

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Performance desktop gets a drastic redesign.

By Scott Lowe

For years, Apple has neglected its performance tower, the Mac Pro, leaving the design untouched and making only small, incremental specs refreshes. That is, until today. The company has just revealed its new, drastically redesigned tower, which has moved taken on a cylindrical chassis that is one-eighth the size of the previous generation, but 2.5 times the power.

It measures at exactly 9.9-inches tall and comes equipped with Xeon E5 12-core processors, dual AMD FirePro GPUs, ECC memory, and Thunderbolt 2. In fact, the system comes with 6 total Thunderbolt 2 ports which can support multiple displays and 4K support.

The new Mac Pro will ship this fall. Pricing information has not been disclosed.

Scott Lowe is IGN's resident tech expert and Executive Editor of IGN Tech. You can follow him on Twitter at @ScottLowe and on MyIGN at Scott-IGN.